In past years I'd used the freefillable forms option, and before that TaxAct (back when it wasn't constantly nagging you to buy much more expensive options). Our taxes are pretty straightforward nowadays, since our house is paid off and the "kid" is an adult. We were under the earnings limit they've placed on the new system, and we live in Washington state - so I figured I'd give it a try.

This is much more user-friendly than freefillableforms, and is superior in usability even to TaxAct.... but not being able to handle itemized deductions (at least not yet) will make it a non-starter for many people. But all in all they did a good job. Filing is free, and there was no fee for paying what we owed via our bank account (unlike, say, with TaxAct). I definitely will use it again next year, if the Publicans don't manage to kill it.

Without taxes, how's the government going to pay all those people to round up the illegal aliens you're so scared of? Or cover the salary of a standing military? Or build a border wall?

There's a difference between a release and a release candidate - and this is the latter.

Although personally I'd rather LInus had just rejected the silly kludge that got submitted to the previous RC - perhaps accompanied by one of his diatribes - instead of this passive-aggressive action.

Side note - I absolutely love the cover of that song from the George Harrison Tribute concert, performed by a bunch of Hall of Fame rockers in their own right.

https://youtu.be/dWRCooFKk3c?s...

Do you think the average age of this paper's authors is above or below 60?

Complex, deep lyrics - like "Why don't we do it in the road."

You may have been a tad too subtle there...

He's haunted because he couldn't get to the transporter room fast enough to save them.

'... she dismissed out of hand Coinbase's argument, which is that cryptocurrencies are novel assets that don't fall within the SEC's jurisdiction — in short, they're not "securities."'

It's pretty obvious that the word "secure" should never appear in the same sentence as the word "cryptocurrency".

Not sure I agree with this. The 80s, at least, seemed to be when all the small-screen multiplexes started to take over. I'd pay for a movie, pay too much for some popcorn and a pop, then from where I was able to find a seat the screen didn't seem significantly larger than the big Zenith TV we had at home.

The main problem with Node is NPM's security situation right now is about where PHP's was 10 or so years ago. Every month or two it seems we learn about yet another significant security problem.

I still prefer perl to python/php/etc., but - it seems pretty clear to me, from various personal interactions, that perl is not a language most people learn nowadays.

And (speaking to another point in your post) I did learn perl mostly from a book - actually two books. "Learning Perl" and "Programming Perl", both published by O'Reilly. The first editions where on stone tablets, IIRC.

It's pretty obvious this "popularity" index isn't telling us anything particularly useful in the real world.

Was there actually a good reason for this Justice Department data to have been copied over to the consultant-owned machines at all?

Why would you want one? Is there a GNU/Klein Bottle that runs Linux in a (boundary-less) container?